Support for running karpenter on self managed control planes in azure

[tasdikrahman]

Tell us about your request

We were just checking the docs if azure is currently supported on self managed control planes

and from the docs

Only AKS clusters with Azure CNI Overlay + Cilium networking are supported. Only Linux nodes are supported.

Is there a plan to have it supported for self hosted control planes in azure which are provisioned via CAPI/CAPZ?

Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?

We would want to run karpenter in azure via self hosted control plane.

Are you currently working around this issue?

We are currently checking if azure is supported in self hosted control planes in azure apart from AKS

Additional Context

https://github.com/Azure/karpenter-provider-azure?tab=readme-ov-file#known-limitations

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[Bryce-Soghigian]

cc: @jackfrancis

[jackfrancis]

@tasdikrahman:

@elmiko has organized an effort to introduce a Cluster API karpenter provider, which would require minimal implementation from each CAPI provider (e.g., CAPZ) in order to produce a consistent Cluster API + karpenter experience for all CAPI providers. Follow this issue for the latest, and how to get involved!:

• https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues/7198

[elmiko]

thanks for the ping, we're still in the experimental phases of getting a proof of concept off the ground. there are some open questions we will need to solve from the cluster-api side to make the karpenter integration full featured, but i'm confident we can solve them.